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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics …

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The gender pay gap in the US : a matching study

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2019

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...

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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017 - This draft: 16th of March 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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Is labour market discrimination against ethnic minorities better explained by taste or statistics? : a systematic review of the empirical evidence

Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020

Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively … mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to …-based and statistical discrimination against the empirical reality. First, we observed that the measurement operationalisation …

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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti-discrimination …

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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …-education between natives and immigrants outweighs the corresponding wage premium differential, we conclude - based on OLS and dynamic …

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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents

Mann, Samuel - 2020

This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...

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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment

Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017

unemployment rates, whilst also receiving lower earnings, as compared to men. …

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Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi - 2022

This paper explores the role of performance-related pay to the UK gender pay gap at the mean and across the earnings distribution. Applying decomposition methods to data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we find that performance-related pay is an important but neglected factor, with...

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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

Baert, Stijn - 2021

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …

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